Example sentences of "[subord] it make sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should also be recognised that while this chapter has stressed the view of language as a process , it is nevertheless the case that , at some point , children do reach a level of mastery where it makes sense to describe them as having acquired knowledge of an abstract set of rules which can be used to express meanings . |
| 2 | where it makes sense and is practicable , the pupil may be moved up or down a key stage for the subject in question by placing him or her in a teaching group in which the majority of pupils are older or younger … |
| 3 | The buses are cheap and excellent , the drivers are virtuosi , and cars give way to them , so it makes sense to use this facility and relax . |
| 4 | As their retirement counselling manager explained , Legal and General has over one million people either paying towards or drawing out pensions , so it makes sense for them to offer pre-retirement courses which are paid for either by the individuals themselves or their employers . |
| 5 | For example , breast milk is sweet and salty , so it makes sense that we 're born liking these tastes . |
| 6 | A The aquarium is probably the single most important and expensive purchase the marine fishkeeper ( or any fishkeeper , for that matter ) will invest in , so it makes sense to choose the best in terms of quality and function . |
| 7 | Orc Boyz units work out cheapest per model , so it makes sense to include extra Boyz units if you are going to increase the size of your core . |
| 8 | Sun and wind are so free so it makes sense to use them where possible for power . |
| 9 | After all , the sentence is one of the building blocks of a piece of prose , so it makes sense to be able to work with whole sentences rather than having to highlight each word within one manually . |
| 10 | The cost of running SYMAP is low since standard peripherals are used , so it makes sense to use it as an aid to map design before proceeding to a more elaborate plotter mapping package such as GIMMS . |
| 11 | The performance of trusts — even of one type — is very varied so it makes sense to spread your money across more than one trust . |
| 12 | ‘ What I always say is , if it made sense , it would n't be alien . ’ |
| 13 | It 's growing but it 's not so big a piece of business that we could n't afford to do an acquisition , if it made sense . ’ |
| 14 | My research , if I can call it that , has involved ( over the same period ) a cyclical process of listening to teachers , tidying up what I think I 've heard into some more-or-less coherent story , and then telling it to other teachers to see if it makes sense to them , and captures in an interesting , plausible and fruitful way something significant of their experience . |
| 15 | If it makes sense to sell investment products such as annuities and mutual funds ( which banks increasingly do ) , why not insurance ? |
| 16 | And if it makes sense to punish at all , there is some point in trying to punish offenders at least roughly in proportion to the moral gravity of their offences . |
| 17 | If it makes sense to see the period 1660 – 1715 as a coherent whole , what was it that changed with the Hanoverian Succession and the failure of the Jacobite rebellion ? |
| 18 | The atomic theory thus came by the 1860s to have two functions : it might be a fundamental theory of matter , about which it was appropriate to argue in a very general way ; or it might be a teaching aid , helpful to students who learned it as a dogma because it made sense of a great number of facts . |
| 19 | I mean we 're so busy with our own we do n't really you know we do n't we do n't feel at all upstaged by the lodge I think you know we just work together really you know because it makes sense you know I do n't think there 's no big |
| 20 | In 1977 Hunt said : ‘ I intend to keep going full chat until the day I retire because it makes sense . |
| 21 | It would have surprised Claudia if Dana did have any money ; she earned a great deal but spent it as fast as she made it , and , while it made sense for Roman to bring her under his wing , Claudia resented it fiercely . |
| 22 | McLeish found himself receiving this with reluctance and wondered why , since it made sense . |
| 23 | The first decision was clearly whether it made sense to concentrate all our resources behind the two core businesses , without foods . |
| 24 | But if one starts from the spontaneous inclination itself , the question arises whether it makes sense to call it egoistic before it has been chosen in terms of the agent 's own standards for the beneficial . |
| 25 | If you have to decide whether someone on your doorstep is genuine , do n't just look at his or her appearance but also at what that person is saying , how it is said , and whether it makes sense . |
| 26 | ‘ If he is dead , and she dies too , that letter 's evidence whether it makes sense or not . |
| 27 | Culture as content seems to point , on the other hand , to different answers for different kinds of educational programme , and even begs the question as to whether it makes sense in some subject domains . |
| 28 | These ‘ centre-devised ’ modules are sent out to specialist advisers for comment and then checked by a small committee , the Catalogue sub-committee , to see whether it makes sense to have the proposal developed for inclusion in the Catalogue . |
| 29 | On the basis of interviews with samples of prisoners and staff , and of observations , an attempt is made to show : what the prison system is like ; why it is like it is ; whether it makes sense to those who experience it ; and whether there are alternative ways of reconciling security and control with humane containment . |
| 30 | The internal and external threats faced by many countries " hardly justify the sums being spent on armed might " , and finance agencies were " entitled to ask whether it makes sense to help governments whose first priority is not to develop , but to add to , military strength " . |